Zac Nabi, 41, leapt into action from the top of the stairs as one intruder pinned his wife, Shamim, against a wall as their terrified daughter Sumaiya, seven, watched on.

A brave builder fought off four masked raiders after they burst into his home and held his screaming wife at knifepoint.

Zac Nabi, 41, leapt into action from the top of the stairs as one intruder pinned his wife, Shamim, against a wall as their terrified daughter Sumaiya, seven, watched on.

Zac jumped on the thug before attacking the gang with kicks and punches.

He said: “There was no way I was having these jokers in my house. I think they got a shock – they got a good hiding anyway.

“I’m a builder so I’m used to a bit of rough and tumble. The audacity of coming into my house is well out of order.”

Zac, was upstairs when Shamim, 33, answered the door of their home on Murray Street, Higher Broughton, Salford, at about 6.15pm. She was confronted by the four thugs – two armed with knives – who forced their way in.

Zac said: “I saw a masked man holding Shamim by the throat with a knife to her chest. I threw myself from the top of the stairs and launched myself at the guy, swinging and pushing my feet into him. I punched him. I noticed two others in the front room where my daughter was doing her homework. I punched, kicked and hit them and was literally picking them up and throwing them out of the house on to the pathway.”

Zac, who did boxing and kick-boxing as a youngster, chased the men as they tried to escape, but all four ran off towards Bowker Street. He strained muscles during the struggle.

He said: “We don’t know why they came to our house. I’ve done quite a lot of work to it, so maybe they thought there were nice things in here.”

The men were all around 5ft 9in, skinny and wearing dark clothing and balaclavas.

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